Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-10-08
LOCAL BREvITIES,

The county has $20,0s5 65 in the treas
ury.
The overland was half an hour late last
night.
A special train of six fruit cars went
East last evening.
DR.. Berson publishes card in another
column this morning. to prove the falsity
OF charge made against him in a contem.
porary.
The examination of DR.. Cassells and
Mrs. Lily Draper will be held to. day in the
Police Court. More than likely the mat
ter will be heard with closed doors.
The Feast of tb Tabernacle, the last of
the Jewish holidays for the season, will be
celebrated at the synagogue AT oclock to-
morrow evening, and at 10A NJ on Mon
day.
Eighteen shanties occupied by Chinese
were destroyed by fire at 4 o'clock Friday
morning, at Folsom. Loss, not known.
The buildings were owned by white resi-
dents of Folsom.
There were but two cases on the calendar
of the Police Court yesterday, that of Geo.
Williams Tor gaming, and II. Hamilton for
battery. They were continued to October
Sth and October 18th respectively.
The following names appeared on the
station house slate at midnight: Dan
Haley, disturbing the peace, by officer Ash
A. Wertheim, disturbing the peace, by Off
Ger Carroll; William Wales, malicious mis-
chief. by citizen Meyers.
A correspondent asks: "Is it proper, in
accordance with American custom, for pc
destrlans, meeting each other on the street,
to pass to the right or the left? Your an
swer will keep badly bumped citizen out
of future troEble." The answer is fire.
quently posted on public turnpikes keep
to the right, as the law directs"
There was fair attendance at the Bible
Reading in Y. NJ. c. A. Hall, yesterday.
Mr.: Mason's theme was What God is to
US" and it was explained and illustrated
by appropriate passages from the Bible.
This afternoon his theme will be "Christ's
and tonight he will resume
the evangelistic meetings for young men
only.
The Woodland Democrat saws: The fes-
tive musGuito continues to hold midnight
around the bedrooms of Wood
land. They never were known to infest
the precincts of Woodland as late as this.
and 1t begins to look as if they intended to
make this their winter quarters They
doubtless appreciate our genial climate, and
a man at our elbow thinks they have de-
cided to invest in Woodland property.
The average Signal Service temperature
yesterday was $50, being the same as the
normal for that day. The highest and
lowest temperature was 74o and $50, with
high northerly winds and clear weather.
The extreme velocity of the wind reached
~ miles per hour during yesterday and
averaged Is Is miles per hour during the
day. Barometer rising up to noon and
falling during the afternoon and evening,
standing at 29.17 inches at 7P.N.
The trial of ]. H. Harlan for the murder
Of 4. l.. Craft will come, up in the Superior
Court of Yolo county on its second hearing
Tuesday, October 18th. The Sheriff isnoW
engaged in serving subpenas upon wit
nesses and summoning jurymen. Thus far
over forty subpenas have been served bv
the prosecution and the other side will
have as many or more witnesses.
There is not as much. interest taken in this
as was taken in the former trial.
The investigation by the State Board of
Prison Directors of the charges of cruelty
1t Folsom, together with the findings of
The Board, the testimony of Wardens and
5heritfs of other States and localities, opin-
ons of the press upon the result of the in
ETC., has been issued in PAM
phlet form from the State Printing Office,
md forms an interesting volume of seventy
pages. The testimony of prison officials in
ng discipline in reformatory institutions
makes the publication one of value as
upon the subject of penology.